Ita Buttrose breaks silence on Stan Grant as broadcaster discusses ‘bruising’ week
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Ita Buttrose breaks silence on Stan Grant as broadcaster discusses ‘bruising’ week

The ABC chair blamed an “abusive and toxic culture” for driving Grant out of his role.

  • byHannah Story andNick Bonyhady

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The 10 must-see events at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival

The 10 must-see events at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival

With the Sydney Writers’ Festival kicking off next week,we pulled together our picks of the festival,including international authors like Colson Whitehead and local favourites such as Helen Garner.

  • byJason Steger andHannah Story
Lives reimagined in poetry hurled like a javelin at the page

Lives reimagined in poetry hurled like a javelin at the page

These two poetry collections have two ordinary lives as their scaffolding.

  • byPip Smith
Anger and conflict as Stan Grant reflects on monarchy in Australia

Anger and conflict as Stan Grant reflects on monarchy in Australia

The broadcaster’s response to the death of the Queen is subtle and passionate.

  • byDennis Altman
Can words set us free? The world’s coolest poet certainly thinks so

Can words set us free? The world’s coolest poet certainly thinks so

On his way to Australia,poet and musician Anthony Joseph is out to move us - to tears and to protest.

  • byJane Cornwell
This year’s Best Young Australian Novelists revealed

This year’s Best Young Australian Novelists revealed

The winners have delivered three clever,ambitious - and very different - books.

  • byMelanie Kembrey
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Dear future,here’s the one lesson I want to pass on to you

Dear future,here’s the one lesson I want to pass on to you

Jenny Odell,author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time,pens a personal letter to the future.

  • byJenny Odell
The painful human stories in Vietnam,a nation torn apart by war

The painful human stories in Vietnam,a nation torn apart by war

In her latest novel Nguyen Phan Que Mai looks at the fate of children born to Vietnamese mothers and American military fathers.

  • byGiselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Andre Dao’s novel is a rigorous and generous search for the past

Andre Dao’s novel is a rigorous and generous search for the past

Anam is a search for a way to honour the author’s grandfather’s story

  • byLeah Jing McIntosh
Why winning a Booker didn’t make this author feel she’d reached the top

Why winning a Booker didn’t make this author feel she’d reached the top

Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo has 30 minutes to spare,but plenty of advice for life and writing:work hard and don’t stay in your lane,because why would you want to write only from your own demographic?

  • byStephanie Bunbury
A pulsing account of the Earth and its humans

A pulsing account of the Earth and its humans

Peter Frankopan charts how natural events have shaped history and how our species has come to act on a planetary scale.

  • byJarrod Hore